Coffee Roasting

An icon in the home coffee market. That’s the Rancilio Silvia espresso machine. First introduced in late 1997, the Silvia was not intended for retail sale initially; instead, it was a unique sales incentive gift for Rancilio’s Commercial Resellers market globally. Very quickly, the company was convinced to manufacture the machine regularly for sale to

Another entry in CoffeeGeek’s Getting into Coffee series, this time around we are looking at the top ten things to consider when purchasing a home espresso machine! The home espresso machine market has never been this big. There’s literally thousands of different machines out there today for home use. A search on Ali Express shows

Thinking about getting into home espresso? Upping your game on pour over? Venturing into the world of siphon coffee? There’s certainly no lack of guides online – from mainstream newspapers to obscure websites – that give you tips and advice on all these subjects and more involving specialty coffee. I often search the Internet and

Grounds for Health is a charity we care a lot about at CoffeeGeek, and they’re running a flash auction with lots of amazing coffee related items right now (June 9 through 10), as you read this! All proceeds benefit women’s health programs in coffee-growing communities. This is a great opportunity for you to support Grounds

Influencers have gone off the deep end. What in the world would Oprah Winfrey know about espresso machines and coffee makers? Yet here we have it, in a Yahoo Life blast out article, Oprah’s Favorite Coffee Maker Will Make You Feel Like a Barista, is just a bunch of complete bullshit. I don’t use that

Press the Shot Brew Button However your machine is activated to brew espresso (button press, lever lift, paddle turn, etc), now’s the time to do so. Again, we’re trying to brew the best possible espresso shot, so use all your tricks to get a good one here. We’re holding the button to extend pre-infusion on

If you’ve read part one of this article, you’ll know that coffee is an amazing and glorious shrub in both its living and transformed state. So what do housing, furniture, lighting, home goods, jewelry, textiles, food production, and fuel all have to do with this miracle plant (besides being a necessity for living)? Thanks to

A little more than two years ago, I realized I need to stop drinking cow milk. Deciding which plant-based milk should replace it was a decision that was inherently about what would work best with my coffee, as coffee is the main reason I drink milk. The CoffeeGeek team has been covering the rising trend

When Covid cases were first starting to rise in North America and lockdowns ensued, De la Gente (DLG) had to decide what to do with four containers of coffee. But these weren’t containers you might store a pound or two of coffee in to brew at home. These were containers that together stock approximately 167,000

Although coffee beans originated in the mountainous regions of Western Ethiopia, the earliest written evidence of cultivation appeared in 12th century Yemen. Likely carried over the Red Sea by Ethiopian invaders, the plant became a foundational aspect of Islamic culture once on the Arabian peninsula. It is the favorable growing conditions of the Yemenese highlands

When you look at those tiny roasted gems that will eventually transform into the life sustaining beverage we call coffee, you might not fully understand what you’re looking at. What we are really seeing is a single part of a whole. For example, you can’t truly begin to appreciate your cappuccino without understanding the ratios

Instagram Image Credits, from top clockwise: @nikkigbigger, @coffeegobel, @coffeeker_photography, @capecoffeebeans, @chrisronak, @mountainbatista, center: @calin.charles A cursory scroll through Aeropress’s Instagram account feels equal parts globe-trotting itinerary as a coffee-making promotion. The array of photo locations with the brewing device in hand is astounding; South African waterfalls, the mountains of China, the Eiffel tower. Deeper into

These are no lightweights, designed for ultralight backpacking or bicycle camping. The Pelican cases and their contents are pretty heavy. The 1400 Pelican measures 34cm long, 29cm deep, and 15.5cm tall, and weighs 2kg with the foam inserts. The 1500 Pelican is more beefy; it’s almost half a meter wide, 36cm deep, 18cm tall and

Camping has seen a massive boost in popularity during the global pandemic, and 2021 will see the trend continue. At CoffeeGeek, our goal is for you to have amazing coffee and to develop the skills needed to deliver it anytime, any place, anywhere. That includes off the grid, while travelling, and while camping. To help

Spring is here and that means the days are getting longer and the temperature is getting warmer.  On days when you just don’t feel like a hot cup (scandalous, I know), the next best thing is a cool and revitalizing cold brew coffee. You know, there’s nothing worse than going to a coffee shop and

At over 5 kilograms, the Apex Grinder is easily the heaviest manual grinder you can buy today. The grinder comes complete with tools and even optional parts for you to really dive into it if you want and make modifications. Doug Garrett even has a bunch of videos on Youtube showing how to take the

Coffee is a matter of serious consideration even for those not invested in specialty coffee. Coffee drinkers, by and large, have strong opinions about their preferred cup, their preferred brewing method, their preferred flavor profile, and whether or not they add various kinds of milk, creams, and sweeteners to it. How someone takes their coffee

We’ve got some new products to showcase today, all of which will be reviewed in our Blog’s Mini Review category. They are from a company called Soulhand, which sells an expanding range of coffee brewing and preparation products. We’ve got three of them to show today and to set up for review. Soulhand 350ml Ice

Polished Immersion Brewing Later in 2015, Intelligentsia Coffee’s Sarah Anderson developed this process in her 2015 US Brewers Cup winning routine. She steeped the coarsely ground coffee for 4-5 minutes in French Press carafes and skimmed the crust, as Prince did. After this, the coffee was run through cone filter brewers with a slow pour

Arabica lovers rejoice with news of the re-discovery of Coffea stenophylla, a coffee species found in the wild in Sierra Leone.  On April 19th, a team of scientists led by Botanist Aaron Davis from the Royal Botanic Gardens published a paper in Nature Plants stating that Stenophylla, the species of coffee rediscovered in the dense

It’s not uncommon for a “coming soon” sign to be off by a few months. But after waiting all of 2019 and not seeing much progress as 2020 rolled in, I was starting to grow skeptical that the coffee shop/wine bar next door to my apartment in the Marina Del Rey area of Los Angeles

Baratza recently introduced the BaratzaGEAR lineup of accessories for some of their grinders. These include: a Single Dose Hopper compatible with most of their grinders (read our review here); accent kits that work with the Encore lineup (and sort of with the Virtuoso grinders); and an Aeropress holder / doser that is compatible (for the

I am a straight coffee and espresso sort of person. If I am being very honest, I rarely try any of the more refined milk drinks on menus these days.  Don’t get me wrong.  I am completely in support of botanical-infused oat milks, but these are just not my thing.  That being said, I am interested in coffee

Baratza recently introduced the BaratzaGEAR lineup of accessories for some of their grinders. These include: a Single Dose Hopper compatible with most of their grinders (except the Sette series); accent kits that work with the Encore lineup (and sort of with the Virtuoso grinders); and an Aeropress holder / doser that is compatible (for the

Obsession can be delicious, and it can keep you awake at night. That’s a pretty accurate way to describe my addiction to coffee and my fascination with all things brewing, though when Mark Prince asked me to write about my experience with coffee and my memories of CoffeeGeek, I was equal parts flattered and terrified. 

I have some background as a barista and even as someone who competed in a barista competition (I did very badly), but the cafe I worked at did not use scales. The owner is one of those oldschool guys who thinks the espresso blend should be a generational family secret, that espresso coffee beans should

The Acaia Pearl Scale, the one that started it all for high end, coffee specific scales with a Kickstarter campaign almost 8 years ago, is getting its second major update and overhaul, and most definitely the scale’s biggest update since it’s initial introduction. You may have noticed the Pearl model listed as out of stock

I fill up my coffee mug, set the pot down, and the race is on. I want to savor each sip, yet each passing second brings me closer to despair. I want to move forward in a straight line, yet this race is littered with stops and starts. Go too fast and I’ll get burned.

First there was the successful Kickstarter Project, raising $88,000. Next there’s the Indigogo Preorder Page, which is up to $90,000 and climbing. These have got to be some very smart playing cards. And they’re all about coffee. Vincent Lam came up with this idea of a deck of 52 playing cards he calls “Sip to

On any given sunny day in Jerusalem, you will find The Bastet in top form. The crowd overflows from the café’s small interior out into the tables arranged on the pavement at its front, cheerful and smiling; there is a pleasant familiarity among the staff itself and between the staff and the regular patrons, who